synchresis
synchresis is the misconstruction of syncrisis.
synchresis is the misconstruction of synchesis.
synchresis is the misconstruction of syncretism.
Meaning of syncrisis
Noun
syncrisis (plural syncrises)
- A figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared.
- Other aspects were also taken into consideration in the pansophic method, ensuing from the syncrisis of the general and particular.1984, Marie Kyralová, Symposium Comenianum 1982: The Impact of J.A. Comenius on Educational Thinking and Practice, page 19
Meaning of syncretism
Noun
syncretism (countable and uncountable, plural syncretisms)
- The reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (religious, cultural, or otherwise cosmologic or ontologic).
- Having thus established his trinity of hypotheses, M. Lamennais deduces therefrom, by a badly connected chain of analogies, his whole philosophy. And it is here especially that we notice the syncretism which is peculiar to him. The theory of M. Lamennais embraces all systems, and supports all...1876 [1840], “Second Memoir”, in Benjamin R. Tucker, transl., What is Property?, translation of Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Synonyms:
- syncresis
- The fusion of different inflexional forms.
- In this paper a distinction is assumed between full syncretism, which affects whole morphemes, and partial syncretism, which affects only some case allomorphs, and also between syncretism proper and mere loss of a case morpheme.1993, Robert Coleman, “Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European”, in Henk Aertsen, Robert J. Jeffers, editors, Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference, John Benjamins...
Noun
synchresis (plural synchreses)
- A type of synergy in a mind's interpretation of combined audio and visual stimuli that either is an audiovisual type of synesthesia or is comparable and contrastable with such type of synesthesia.
- Synchresis (a word I have forged by combining synchronism and synthesis) is the spontaneous and irresistible weld produced between a particular auditory phenomenon and visual phenomenon when they occur at the same time. This join results independently of any rational logic. Synchresis is...1994, Michel Chion, Audio-vision: Sound on Screen, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 63
Synonyms of synchresis
Forms of synchresis
| plural | synchreses |
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Origin of synchresis
Misconstructions continually rearising in isolated occurrences in each century, as occasionally individual speakers misspeak or writers miswrite.
Said to be a blend of synchronism + synthesis. Apparently first attested in 1994.
Questions about synchresis
- What does synchresis mean?
- Synchresis means a type of synergy in a mind's interpretation of combined audio and visual stimuli that either is an audiovisual type of synesthesia or is comparable and contrastable with such type of synesthesia.
- What is synchresis the misconstruction of?
- Synchresis is the misconstruction of syncrisis.
- What part of speech is synchresis?
- Synchresis is a noun.
- What is the plural of synchresis?
- The plural of synchresis is synchreses.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: synchresis (page history and authors); syncrisis (page history and authors); syncretism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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